CDRW - What is best and is it better?

[Bonesdad]

How much difference is there between an 8x8x32 CDRW and a 12x10x32 CDRW? Am I going to notice faster copying? Or is it just a minorimprovement?

[hiredgoonz]

8X records at 1200kb/sec and 12X at 1800kb/sec...so a little math and you get 388.8 seconds to burn a 700mb cd at 12X or 583.3 seconds to burn a 700mb cd at 8X (these times are ideal and do not factor in extra time for audio cd creation and writing toc info)

So 6 1/2 minutes to burn a cd or 9 3/4 minutes...how important is 3 minutes to you?

As far as copying cd to cd, you should still see a difference of a few minutes, so again, it all depends on how patient you are...

Personally I would wait a little while to buy one, yamaha just came out with a 20X 10X 40X, so the prices on "slower" burners should drop soon...

Probably be able to pick up a nice 16X w/burn proof for $200 any day now...

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[myone]

Check this out guys
http://www.8wire.com/article_render/?aid=2006

[iisbob]

in real world experiance it depends on your system setup; ie your processor, hard drive, how well your system runs , etc. What i'm saying is that i've got a 8/4/32 HP and it burns FASTER than both one friends 10/4/32, another's yamaha 12/10/32. Now the telling diff is that i have an athlon 1ghz, and a 30 gb 7200 HD w/ddr memory-the 10x friend has 850 pIII, 20gb 5400 pc100 512mb-the yamaha friend has an athlon 600, 20 gb 7200 pc133 256mb. Your systems performance will affect how fast, and reliably you burn discs( or coasters-and believe me you WILL have a few http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif )
besides, you'll soon discover that you don't want to burn to fast, otherwise you'll make a lot of coasters-it's actually recommended to burn a 1x-4x for best performance, i've found this to be true-i'd rather wait 5-10 minutes for a good burn, than have to do 2 or 3 " fast " burns just to get it right.
the good news is they're starting to improve on this technology to where shortly you will be able to burn as fast as your burner can handle, and still get a %100 positive burn. check out this link-i may decide to get this myself http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif
http://www.yamaha.com/cgi-win/webcgi.exe/DsplyModel/?gHDR00007CRW2200EZ

based on the review in PCwolrd( 8/01 ) they may have finally fixed the buffer underrun issues in hgih speed cd-burning.

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iisbob
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